The reopened PDA

Didn't have time to update the blog past few days as Regan just went on to a new school and we are all trying to arrange timings and all to send and pick him up from school. He seemed to be enjoying it though with the interesting Montesorri syllabus. It seemed much easier to get him used to it in this new school. :)

Reyes is doing pretty well in KK, when I saw him on Mon, he was 1235g and is on EBM of 7 ml/hr. I hope he gets to 1.3kg soon!! There was a new doctor in, name is Dr Tan and she was explaining to us on his reopened PDA and what are the options & steps they are taking.

This duct is causing blood from the left heart to flow back to the lungs. If this amount is substantial, it causes breathing issues in infants. Infants will also have to work harder breathing and thus use up more energy as well.

We were told the PDA in Reyes has increased from 2.4mm to 2.6mm and he is having some fluid retained in the heart at this point and so they have started administering diurectic to dry him up a little, hopefull the retained fluid will be expelled out from the body and hopefully it might help to close up the PDA a little.

If this fails, they will be administering another course of medication to Reyes and keep on monitoring the situation. The last resort would be to go through a surgery which we are trying to avoid at all costs taking into consideration the risks involved.

He was all wide-eyes when we were there 2 days ago. I hope and pray that the surgery would not be necessary. Be strong, Reyes!